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Sep 4, 2023 · Playwright August Wilson wrote Fences, a play that was a part of Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle" series, in 1985, which served as the basis for Denzel Washington's 2016 film. The filmmakers used Wilson's playscript to stay loyal to the original story, so Wilson is the sole writer credited for Fences.
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Jan 11, 2017 · Denzel Washington talks about the cinematic challenges of adapting August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. By Anne Thompson.
Dec 15, 2016 · Director/star Denzel Washington faithfully adapts August Wilson's searing, Pulitzer-winning play. The brilliant result is "moviemaking as public service," says critic Andrew Lapin.
Jan 5, 2017 · January 5, 2017. Denzel Washington’s adaptation of the August Wilson play “Fences” boasts committed performances, especially by Washington and Viola Davis, but their theatricality spurns...
Washington’s adaptation strategy is syncretistic, so that the most distinctive feature of Wilson’s stage version of Fences, its densely layered, demotic-poetic verbal energy, here dynamically interacts with the cinematic elements that Washington’s camera, almost “invisibly,” limns.
Dec 23, 2016 · The toughest challenge was dressing Mykelti Williamson as Gabriel, the brain-damaged but spiritually-touched brother of Washington’s Troy. His outfit from the play was too symbolic for a movie.
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Dec 15, 2016 · In the screen adaption of the August Wilson play “Fences,” Denzel Washington is a former Negro Leagues ballplayer whose bitterness over constricted opportunities poisons his family as well.
